Machine for corking bottles with corks covered with pieces of parchment-paper or the like.



N0. 783,593. PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905. P. ROSENTHAL & W. PETRAN. MACHINE FOR GORKING BOTTLES WITH OORKS COVERED WITH PIECES OF PARGHMENT PAPER OR THE LIKE. APPLIGATION FILED JULY 20, 1904.

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l' M IHMI No! 783,593. PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905. P. ROSENTHAL Ex W. PETRAN. MACHINE FOR GORKING BOTTLES WITH GORKS COVERED WITH PIEGES 0F PARGHMENT PAPER OR THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 20. 1904.

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N0. 783,593. PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

P. ROSENTHAL & W. PETRAN. MACHINE FOR CORKING BOTTLES WITH GORKS COVERED WITH PIECES OF PAROHMENT PAPER OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FIL D J 20, 1904.

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No. 783,593. PATENTED FEB. 28. 1905.

P. ROSENTHAL & W. PETR MACHINE FOR GORKING BOTTLES WITH GORK- VERBD WITH PIECES 0F PARCHMENT PAPER OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20. 1904.

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Patented. February 28, 1905.

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PHILTPP ROSENTHAL AND VVACLAT V PETLRAN, OF MOSCOW RUSSIA.

MACHINE FOR CORKING BOTTLES WITH CORKS COVERED WITH PIECES OF PARCHMENT- PAPER OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,593, dated February 28, 1905.

Application filed July 20,1904. Serial No. 217,384

To all whom, it may concern:

. Be it known that we, Prum'rr ROSIGN'IHAL, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of (lei-many, and Dronaw Pn'rnAN, a subject of the Emperor of Russia, residing at Moscow, Russia, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Machines for Col-king Bottles with Corks Covered with Pieces of Parchmerit-Paper or the Like; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, refer-- ence being had to the accompanying d rawings, and to letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to machines for in sorting stoppers in bottles; and it consists, essentially, of a corking-machine having a single driving-shaft, from which are. driven cooperative mechanisms for feeding corks to the stop per-inserting plunger, for cutting from a suitable strip of material wafers to cover the cork, and means to shift each wafer after it has been out under the cork to be inserted into the bottle, all operated by means of a single main d ri ving-shaft preferably, but not necessarily, driven by hand, together with details of corn struction to be hereinafter particularly described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of the machine. liig. 4 shows the wafer-transfer plate in side elevation and plan. Fig. 5 is an elevation and section of the cam. Fig. 6 is an elevation and plan of eccentric and cork-feeder. Fig. 7 illustrates a construction of the wafer punch or cutter, and Fig. 8 illustrates a wafer hav ing serrated edges and produced by said punch.

On a suitable standard 1 is removably secured a casing 2, of cast-iron or other suitable material, in which is mounted a main shaft 3, on which are fixed the worm 6 and fly-wheel 5 at one end, preferably, but not necessarily, operated by hand-power. On the other end of the shaft 3 is another worm, 20, by which. the mecl'ianism for drawing the strip of material after the wafers have been cut therefrom is operated and hereinafter described.

The worm 6 drives a worm-wheel 7, fast on a shaft 4, transversely of the main drivingshaft 3. The shaft 4- has a crank 9 at one end connected by rod '10 to the upper end of the plunger ll, that is guided in the cylirnler r, and whose reduced end I) engages a cork positioned to be inserted into the bottle. ()n the cylinder is an open-ended tubulax-magazine 42, that holds a supply of superposed corks, the lowermost of which re, s on the table 1:6 immediately in front of the liner l2. This liner has a conical openingthrough it for the purpose of compressing the cork as it is fm'ced through it by the reduced end of the plunger, and at the back has a projection -l-T. Within the boss (I, projecting below the table 1-6, is a sleeve 0, containing a spring 65, that holds the shoulder-f of the liner l2 normally against the table to. The sleeve 0, lmtween which and the liner 12 is the spring as, is held in place by the lower removable end 66, Fig. 9., of the corking mechanism, which in turn is secured in place by screws (38. The lower end (36 of the corking mechanism has a slot g for the entrance of the recessed forked end of the wafer-shifting device 35.

()n the main shaft 3 is an eccentric 1 1-, that operates an eccentric-rod e3, connected at its free end to the lower end of a rod &9, pivoted at it, which rod carries a gripper 4C5, the enlargement as of which moves under the lower open end of the magazine 4) as the cork on the table as is pushed against the semicircular projection a7 of the liner, thus preventing the superposed corks in the magazine from descending until the gripper has been again moved out from under the magazine.

The shaft 4; has at the end opposite the crank 9 a gear-wheel 39, that drives a pair of gearwheels, one wheel, 58, of which is keyed to one end of and drives ashaft v', and the other end of this shaft carries a roll 56, having a segmental enlargement 57, that at every revolution contacts with a roll. These two rolls supported on" a spindle Z of a bracket Z, fixed on the machine, and feed the paper forward in like manner. The paper then passes from the drawing-off rolls through a guideway 15, Fig. 2, under the Wafer-cutting mechanism. This wafer-cutting mechanism comprises a boss 16, having an internal configuration, substantially as shown, and contains a clamping-cylinder 23, having internally-projecting pins 32, that pass throughlongitudinalslots 33 in the'punch 24, and between these pins .32 and the closed upper end of the cylindrical punch 24 is a spring 31, so that both punch and clampingcylinder will move in unison and at the same time permit a further independent downward movement of the punch to enable it to pass through the paper strip. The hollow tubular shank 24' of the punch is surrounded by a spring 27, acting on a perforated cap 28 and normally holding the punch in its uppermost position. Within the hollow tubular shank 24 of the punch is a piston 30, acted upon by a spiral spring 29, holding the piston normally against the cap 28. A rod or stem 26, to which the piston 30 is secured, passes through the perforation in the cap 28 and extends centrally through the cutter 24 and carries at its lower end an expelling-disk 25 just above the slot 17 through which the paper strip passes. A nut 69 secures the parts of the cutting device in the boss 16 and is provided with a slot through which the wafercarrying device 35 slides, and 70 is a lock-nut. On the shaft 4 adjacent the crank-arm 9 is a cam 8, having a slot on, in which is mounted a roller 34, said cam acting upon the cap 28 to depress the cutter and the roller 34 acting on the stem 26 of the expelling-disk 25 to depress this disk after the cutter has been depressed. All the cutter mechanism is thus operated from the shaft 4, that drives the stopper-inserting mechanism, while the stopperpositioning mechanism to position the stoppers ready for operation upon them by the stopper-insertingmechanism is operated from the main driving-shaft.

After the wafer has been cut from the paper strip the remainder of the strip passes between the aforementioned drawing-rolls operated from the main shaft, consisting of a roll 18, mounted on a shaft 0, on which is mounted the previously described wormwheel 21. Said roll 18 has a sector-shaped enlargement 22, that at each revolution of the roll 18 and shaft 0 contacts with the strip between it and a roll 19 to draw the strip 14 step by stepthat is, after each wafer has been cut from said stripfrom under the cutter, so as to present a new portion of the strip to the cutter for the next wafer.

As above stated, the gear 39 on shaft 4 drives a pair of gear-wheels 40 and 58. The gear-wheel 40 is mounted loose on a shaft 41,

fixed in the frame of the machine, and is keyed or otherwise rigidly connected to a drum 38, likewise loose on said shaft 41. This drum is provided with a cam groove or way 37, in which rides a roller 60, on the upper end of a screw-stud 53, secured in the heavier portion of the wafer-carrying device. This wafer-carrying device consists of a thick plate 35, having secured thereto a thinner plate 135, having a forked recessed end. The inner end of the forked portion is circular, as shown at 59, Fig. 4, and provided with a bead 36, on which the wafer seats, so as to be below the upper surface of the plate 135 and prevent any accidental displacement of the wafer as it is carried from the cutter to a position between the liner and bottle-mouth under the cork and plunger. This reciprocation of the wafer-carrier is accomplished by the roller 60, traveling in the helical groove 37 of the drum 38.

The bottle 13 is placed on a pan on a vertically-slidable rod n, mounted in a bracket (1 on the standard 1. Pivoted to the rod 9 is .a lever 66, having a fulcrum at 1' and carrying on its opposite end acounterweight 67. Connected to said lever 66 between its fulcrum and the weight is a locking-rod 50, its upper slotted end .9 having free motion on a pin 2? and provided with a nose a. A sliding bolt 51 or the like, having an inclined or other suitably-shaped engaging face 0, is slidable to and from the nose a, being urged by aspring 54. The screw-stud 53 on the wafer-carrying device engages a shoulder 52 on the bolt.

Fig. 7 shows a construction of punch which has for its object to cut out from the paper or parchment strip round wafers having serrated edges, such as shown in Fig. 8. It is well known that square wafers. such as are cut by shears and the like from the paper strip in many older and also more recent corking-machines, have the great drawback that when the cork is driven into the neck of the bottle, and therefore when the wafer assumes the cup shape around the cork, irregular folds or creases are formed that are very extensive in the diagonal directions. These creases render the air-tight corking of the bottles difiicult if not impossible. In the case of the polygonal or even entirely circular wafers the formation of irregular and sometimes large creases is also not excluded, and, in fact, as has been found by experience, such creases occur with disagreeable frequency, either on account of the irregular shape of the cork oiyfrom other causes. By means of the punch shown in Fig. 7 the edges of the circular wafers are provided with radial incisions or serrated in such a manner that a determined direction and uniform dimension are given to the creases. For this purpose the cutting edge of this punch is provided with comparatively large teeth, which are formed on their cutting-surfaces with a number of smaller teeth. In the external view shown in Fig. 7 the teeth 62 have the form of a right-angled triangle like ratchetteeth, but are distinguished from the latter by the fact that the radial front surface, the rearwardly and inwardly inclined rear (upper) surface, and the inclined inner surface run to a point [1, so that each tooth has two cutting edges (.Z c and d b, of which the former, which are provided with small teeth 3, serve to cutout the round wafers from the paper strip, While the other cutting edges serve to cut the radial incisions 64 in the wafer and to bend up the edge, as is clearly shown in Fig. 8.

The end of the paper-strip roll on spindle la is passed between the drawing-oil rolls 56, through the guidcway 15 and slot 17, under the cutter, and then between the rolls 18 19. The magazine-tube 42 is filled with superposed corks, the lowermost of which rests on the table 46 in front of the com n'essing or gripping member 45. The bottle 13 is placed on the pan 65, the counterwr-xight moving the pan and bottle up, so that the lip of the latter is moved into the recess in the under face of the lower removable end 66 of the corking mechanism. Upon rotating the hand-wheel the main shaft I.) isrotated the eccentric 4L4: on

said main shaft draws the element toward the liner 12, thereby moving the lowermost cork that is resting on the table against the projection 47 of the liner, com pressing it ready for insertion into the larger end of the conical passage through the liner. The cam it on the transverse shaft .1; has by this time rotated, so that it cams down the cap 28 of the cutting mechanism, which contacts with the tubular shank 24: of the cutter, thereby depressing the cutter,as well as the clampingcylinder 32, these two parts moving in unison by reason of their being held together by the spring 31 between the closed end of the cutter 2 1- and the pins 32 until the clam iiing'cylinder engages the paper, when the cutter ad vances through the paper, this being permitted by the slots 5-53. The roller 34- then contacts with the end of stem 26 and moves the expelling-disk 25 down to lodge the wafer on the ledge 36 of the circular portion of the forked end of the member 135 if the wafer has not already dropped into position itself. The drum 38 rotates, the roller moving in groove 37, so that the wafer-carrying mechanism 35 135 is moved into the position shown in Fig. 3, with the wafer under the liner 12. The plunger 11 is forced down by rod 10 and crank 9, so that the already-pomtioned cork is forced through the liner, said liner at the same time being forced down against the tension of the spring and both cork and wafer forced into the neck of the bottle. At the same time that the element is moved forward the screw-stud in this element is moved with it to permit the bolt of to be thrown by its spring 54-, the beveled end n taking over the nose t on the rod 50, thus offeotually preventing the force exerted on the bottle by the entering cork from depressing the pan 65, that supports the bottle. Before the reduced portion 1) of plunger 11 has been withdrawn the wafer-carrying plate begins its return movement, the forked end of the plate 135 permitting it to move past the reduced portion, at the same time retracting the locking-bolt 51, so that the pan 65 and weighted lever (36 can be moved to take the bottle 13 off the pan and place another bottle thereon. Before the wafer-cutter comes into operation again the strip M has been advanced a step, the upper drawing-rolls 56 having made one revolution as well as the lower d rawing-rolls ,18 19.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and dcsi rc to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving-slnift, of stopper-inserting mechanism operated from said shaft, mechanism to cut wafers from a continuous strip operated from the stopperinsertii'ig mechanism, subslai'itially as described.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving-shaft, of stopper-inserting mechanism driven from said shaft, mechanism to cut wafers from a continuous strip operated from the stopper-hr sorting mechanism, and means at one end of the strip operated by the drivil'ig-shaft to imparta step-l,)y-step movemei'it to the strip, su bstantially as described.

3. .In a machine of the class described, the combinatioi'i with a main driving-shaft, of stopper-insertingi'nechanism driven from said shaft, mechanism to cut wafers from a continuous strip of material operated from the stopper-inserting mechanism and a wafl-xrcarrying device also operated from said mechanism and timed to carry the wafer from the cutting mechai'iism.under the stopper-insert ing mechanism, substai-itially as described.

4. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving-shaft, of stopper-inserting mechanism driven from said shaft, mechanism to cut vafers from a contin uous strip and a wafer-carrying device both operated from the stopper-inserting mechanism, and means operated by the main shaft to draw the continuous strip under the cutting mechanism, substantially as described.

In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving-slnrft and stopper insertii'ig i'nechanism driven therefrom, of cutting mechanism to cut wafers from a continuous strip of material and a wafer-carrying device, both operated from the stori ieeiiiserting mechanism; means to draw the strip under the cutting mechanism and means to position the stoppers one at a time in the stopper-inserting mechanism and both driven from the main driving-shaft, substantially as described.

6. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving-shaft and stopper-inserting mechanism driven therefrom; of cutting mechanism to cut Wafers from a continuous strip of material, a Wafercarrying device, and drawing-off rolls to intermittently draw the strip from the source of supply, all driven from the stopper-inserting mechanism; means to position the stoppers one at a time in the stopper-inserting mechanism and means to draw the strip of material under the cutting mechanism both operated from the main driving-shaft, substantially as described.

7. The combination with a main shaft, a transverse shaft driven therefrom, a crank-operated plunger actuated from the transverse shaft and a magazine for the stoppers, of a liner before the plunger, cutting mechanism to cut wafers from a continuous strip of material, a cam on the transverse shaft to actuate said mechanism, a wafer-carrying device and means to periodically reciprocate the same actuated from the transverse shaft, drawingoif rolls to draw the strip step by step from the' source of supply, also driven from the transverse shaft; means to draw the strip under the cutting mechanism, worm-gearing to drive said means from the main shaft, said means timed to draw said strip during the periods of inoperativeness of the drawing-off rolls, a stopper-inserting arm to move the lowermost stopper from beneath the magazine into the liner and at the same time close the end of the magazine, and an eccentric on the main shaft to operate said arm, substantially as described.

8. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving-shaft; of stopper-inserting mechanism driven therefrom, mechanism to cut wafers from a continuous strip of material operated from the stopper-inserting mechanism, wafer-carrying mechanism, also operated from said stopperinserting mechanism, a support to hold a bottie in proper relation to the stopper-inserting mechanism, and means to locl; said support against movement during the insertion of the stopper and operated by the wafer-carrying mechanism, substantially as described.

9. The combination with a main drivingshaft; of stopper-inserting mechanism operated therefrom, a cutter, cam-operated from the stopper-inserting mechanism, a clampingcylinder spring connected to the cutter, said cutter capable of moving in unison with the clamp and independently thereof, mechanism to carry the wafer out under a stopper held in the stopper-inserting mechanism, means to support a bottle, and a lock for said support operated by the wafer-carrying mechanism, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIPP ROSENTHAL. l VACLAWV PETRAN.

Vitnesscs:

W. STEININGER, GUSTAV HARTNER. 

